Common abbreviations

ADS: Archaeology Data Service, UK repository for archaeology, heritage, and historic environment data

ARIADNE: Advanced Research Infrastructure for Archaeological Dataset Networking in Europe; previously a series of projects, since 2022 ARIADNE-RI, a research infrastructure

ARIADNEplus: A continuation of the ARIADNE project

CESSDA: Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives

CLARIN: Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure, a digital infrastructure offering data, tools and services to support research based on language resources

DANS: Data Archiving and Networked Services, the Dutch national centre of expertise and repository for research data; a counterpart to SND

DARIAH: Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities, a pan-European digital research infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities

DAU: Data Access Unit, a local support function at organizations in the SND Network offering research data support to researchers

DNA: Rigsarkivet (the Danish National Archives), which was previously, as Dansk Data Arkiv, Denmark's counterpart to SND

DDI: Data Documentation Initiative, a metadata standard to describe research data, provided by DDI Alliance

DMP: Data Management Plan

FAIR: acronym for Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable; a central principle for research data

FSD: Finnish Social Science Data Archive, Finland's counterpart to SND

GESIS: German Social Science Infrastructure Services, now the GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

IASSIST: International Association for Social Science Information Service & Technology

ICPSR: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

IFDO: International Federation of Data Organizations for the Social Sciences

NAISS: National Academic Infrastructure for Supercomputing in Sweden

OA: Open Access, a concept detailing how scientific information, research results, and education materials should be published with free and open access.

OAIS: Open Archival Information System, a reference system and standard for digital preservation

RA: Riksarkivet, the Swedish National Archives

RAÄ: Riksantikvarieämbetet, the Swedish National Heritage Board

RJ: Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, a Swedish research funding organization, and independent foundation with the goal of promoting and supporting research in the Humanities and Social Sciences

SHFA: Svenskt HällristningsForskningsArkiv, Swedish Rock Art Research Archives

SIKT: Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research; Norway's counterpart to SND, previously Norsk senter for forskningsdata, NSD

SUNET: Swedish University Computer Network, provides data communication and storage services to the Swedish higher education sector

SUHF: Sveriges universitets- och högskoleförbund, the Association of Swedish Higher Education Institutions

UKDA: UK Data Archive, UK's largest digital collection of social sciences and population research data

UKDS: UK Data Service, a repository for economic, population, and social research data, and research data services in the UK; a British counterpart to SND

Vinnova: Sweden's innovation agency, and a research funding organization

VR: Vetenskapsrådet, the Swedish Research Council